Empire, Rifondazione Comunista, and the Politics of Spontaneity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6308073 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emanuele Saccarelli (University of Minnesota, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 569-591 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-3148 • E-ISSN: 1469-9931 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0739314042000297496 |
| OpenAlex | W1987618299 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Hardt and Negri’s Empire has emerged as an ambitious and influential attempt to theorize some of the most pressing political concerns of our time. I examine Empire’s reach into contemporary politics—a hitherto neglected aspect of its influence—by explaining how it came to be at the center of fierce debates at the last national congress of Rifondazione Comunista, a political party of the Italian left. I then develop a critique of Empire as a failed attempt to transcend the theoretical and political horizons of Marxism. While Empire presents itself as a radically new theory, it is better understood as the latest of incarnation of spontaneity, a conspicuously old orientation. Finally, I recover Lenin’s critique of spontaneity, using it to make sense of some of the most peculiar ambiguities in Empire and to critique it as neither original nor adequate to face the political challenges of our time
Empire · Face (sociological concept · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |